Accessible PowerPoint: A Primer

Accessible PowerPoint don't have to be visually boring!

This 10 hour self-paced online course guides you through creating accessible yet dazzling PowerPoint presentations. Learn what parts of a PowerPoint are accessible, how to leverage accessibility using the Slide Master, how to create your PowerPoint presentation in Word (for Windows) and how to create an alternate format of a presentation for Braille or large print. Other tools explored are PowerPoint Designer, Subtitles during presentations and PowerPoint Coach.


Your Instructor


Karen Mccall
Karen Mccall

Karen wrote the first book on creating and working with tagged PDF documents (2005) and the first book on creating and remediating more accessible Word documents (2005). Her PDF book is currently in its fourth edition (2017). There have been several iterations of the Word book, the latest, "Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design" was published in 2017.In 2018, she published "Accessible Fillable PDF forms".

Karen has been a Microsoft MVP for Word since 2009 and a Microsoft Accessibility MVP since the additional category was created in 2014. Until August 2018, she was a Canadian delegate to the ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) committees for over 8 years.

Content in this course is copyright Karen McCall.


Course Curriculum


  Document Properties
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  Tables on Slides
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  Speaker Notes as Tagged PDF
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